Drift Tengoku — October 2003

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English draft translations are available throughout this issue. Unclear or unreadable OCR remains flagged; these drafts have not received full image proofreading. The archive retains 310 scan files, including two duplicate captures, representing 308 unique pages.

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Page 163 · English draft

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  1. Ultra Gloover
  2. Come and get us!
  3. A quick look at the winning car! Individual winner: Koretomo’s FC3S
  4. “I want traction above all!” He kept reducing the negative camber until it was below [number damaged] degrees. “It does not look so good, but I won, so that is fine!” says Koretomo. His small bumper is homemade [final description damaged].
  5. Crazy Night lost day one’s fun team drift contest to Ultra Gloover, but took both the individual and twin wins on day two, avenging the defeat.
  6. [Unclear: fragmented OCR label.]
  7. …that was the result.
  8. Crazy Night sweeps day two!
  9. LZYNGHT
  10. In this era of big single turbos, he deliberately uses twin TD05s. Normally it makes 500 ps at 1.3 kg/cm² boost, but that day he lowered boost to 0.7 kg/cm² for roughly 400 ps. This worked perfectly: he could accelerate to the limit and enter faster than before. [Several OCR characters damaged.]
  11. Shuichi Yoshioka (Ultra Gloover)
  12. [Unclear: fragmented OCR label.]
  13. Individual second place
  14. Ultra Gloover are rivals of the winning Crazy Night…
  15. …and among the seven cars advancing [stage damaged] on day two, Crazy Night and Ultra Gloover each had two cars. That says something about their strengths!
  16. The Outface challenger narrowly takes third!
  17. Tomura of Outface, the team of chief judge Sergeant Kamimoto [surname reading provisional], earned third place. Since the sergeant says he judges his own people very strictly, that is an impressive result!
  18. Individual third place
  19. Takashi Tomura (Outface) [given-name reading provisional].
  20. Narrowly second. Incidentally, the final…
  21. No consecutive wins over two days!
  22. [Unclear: fragmented OCR label.]
  23. Fujio’s S14 has a seven-point roll cage. Instead of merely fitting it, they installed it while correcting the chassis on a frame-alignment jig…
  24. …which gives a different solidity and helps the car stay in good condition longer!
  25. Ultra Gloover took second in both individual and team competition. Losing to Crazy Night must have made the frustration twice as great!
  26. Just one step short again!
  27. This is a bit different from an ordinary roll cage!
  28. [Unclear: fragmented OCR label.]
  29. Twin-class winner!
  30. Fujio
  31. Manabu
  32. 1
  33. S14
  34. Team second place
  35. These bars are the secret to the sharp handling! [Opening numeral damaged.]
  36. Iwasaki’s AE86 [model OCR damaged] is full of bars! Besides the seven-point roll cage, it has a tower bar and many extra braces. “Reinforcing around the hatch directly improves sharp handling, so I recommend it!” says Iwasaki.
  37. Pick up! The lively team!
  38. SHADOW
  39. SKILL
  40. GLOOVER
  41. ULTRA
  42. Junichi Iwasaki [reading provisional].
  43. [Unclear: fragmented OCR label.]
  44. …rigidity increase [fragment].
  45. These people made the biggest commotion from the previous day’s festivities onward! It is an alliance of Shadow Skill and Mixture [team names split across nearby regions]. They put up tents and had a great time [activity damaged]. Unfortunately their contest ended quickly, but this is a perfectly valid way to enjoy the event, right?
  46. MIXTURE
  47. &
  48. AE86
  49. [Unclear: fragmented OCR label.]
  50. [Unclear: fragmented OCR label.]
  51. [Unclear: fragmented OCR label.]
  52. Akira Nose (Asahikawa Rockets) [name reading provisional].
  53. This handling is nothing like a 180SX! [Opening OCR damaged.]
  54. Pick up! Great machine!
  55. As long as it is fun, results can come second!
  56. [Unclear: fragmented OCR label.]
  57. [Unclear: fragmented OCR label.]
  58. [Unclear: fragmented OCR label.]
  59. [Unclear: fragmented OCR label.]
  60. Nose entered a 180SX with the floor cut out and the stock fuel tank removed. He built it aiming for the AE86’s sharp response. The replacement tank holds 38 liters [unit OCR damaged]. Today was its shakedown, and he seemed unsettled by behavior unlike a normal 180SX, but once it is set up it should be quite a weapon…
  61. Pick up! Weird-wheel award!
  62. Shintaro Miyamiya [surname OCR uncertain].
  63. …that is our prediction!
  64. Ultra-lightweight 180SX!
  65. “…tomo is a one-hit wonder,” or “He is good when it comes together, but makes too many mistakes,” the harsh critics apparently said. Those criticisms disappeared: although he advanced only 14th in round one (20 qualified), he topped every subsequent round through the final. He won the final with an excellent 57 out of 60 points. Beating Chugoku’s leading experts with such consistency shows he has stepped up a level. Koretomo had said, “Even if it works only once in ten attempts, I do not want to stop attacking!” Now that consistency accompanies his aggressive driving, he is certain to become a major force in drifting!
  66. Our reporters found these wheels while hunting for interesting details. Recognize them? They are American-style “ド40” wheels [name OCR damaged]. They would look at home on a lowrider, but fitting them to a thoroughbred drift car—and sharing them two apiece with a friend—is very drifter-like!
  67. Lineker [team name reading provisional].
  68. These are probably very rare! [OCR damaged].
  69. 159